Below are some useful posters which could be hung around the classroom to re-emphasise the meanings of nouns, verbs and adjectives.
Websites:
Clean Up your Grammar http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/adventure/grammar1.htm# This is a game that teacher can give their students to practise a variety of grammar skills such as; nouns and verbs. The concept of games for Esl and dyslexic learners has the power to stimulate, excite and motivate these students by using a multi-sensory approach.
Scholastic Website - Story Starter http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/storystarters/storystarter1.htm The story starter resource is a great teacher resource which could be adapted to suit students from prep to grade 6. It would be a great activity to use on the smartboard as a whole group focus. This activity introduces students to the art of writing by engaging them with some creative and funny story starters by using of a variety of common nouns. This would be very beneficial for students with learning disabilities and for those students’ visual and kinesthetic learners. Teachers could use this activity to teach their students the importance of nouns in any genre of writing.
This website offers a range of literacy related movies and activities. Some of the topics include: Verbs and their objects. students are introduced to two characters, Tim and Moby who take the students on an adventure where they explore very active - words. This website will allow students to find out what parts of a sentence tell about how a verb works, as well as what can receive the action of a verb. This will suit students with dyslexia and esl learners because its offers the option of listening and watching in order to reinforce learning. This website also offers movies on adjectives, adverbs, antonym, synonyms and homonyms, including a range of punctutation related movies and activities. This would be a great starting point for students wanting to learn Grammar, and then slowly tackling one aspect of Grammar at a time. Suitability: Grade 3-6
Helping Children with Writing http://www.helpingwithwriting.com/Lessons/SentenceOpeners/NounOpeners01.htm Helping With Writing is a sequential program divided into five building blocks each containing seven Mini-Lessons and seven Worksheets. Many dyslexic students have difficulty in focusing on a particular task due to a short attention span. Therefore, these short lessons will suit dyslexic students and also help them build their writing skills step by step, block by block. The website looks at aspects of writing by : Building the foundation (sentence structure) Name the game (Nouns) Gathering things (Collective nouns) Locating Ideas (Prepositions) Taking action (Verbs) This website would suit students in grade 3-6 Books:
About These Books: Mr. Wright's class, and not just for the students. Nouns and verbs are inventing their own games, such as tug-of-words, and putting on three-legged races. But before the real fun can begin, someone is going to have to teach nouns and verbs about the kinds of teamwork needed to make a sentence. This book is a companion to 'Nouns and Verbs have a field day'- It's Field Day in Punctuation Takes a Vacation Both these books would suit grades 3 and 4 and would be an interesting way to introduce nouns and punctuation to students. The images in the book would also reinforce the information, and allow those students who have learning disabilities recall facts on nouns, verbs and punctuation. Picture Book learning Nouns This website suggests a list of children's books that teachers can utilize and modify to suit the grammar type they are teaching. For instance; wanting to teach their students about abstract nouns can engage their students with this topic by reading picture books such as; Big Bad Bunny, Don't Eat the Teacher, Arthur's Teacher Moves In. On the other hand, teachers wanting to teach their students about antonyms, synonyms and homonyms may choose to read "Madeline, The Gruffalo, If you Take a Mouse to School", and then as an explorative activity ask students to try and find where in the text, did they see examples of homonyms or synonyms?
Classroom Displays
Below are some useful posters which could be hung around the classroom to re-emphasise the meanings of nouns, verbs and adjectives.
Websites:
Clean Up your Grammarhttp://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/adventure/grammar1.htm#
This is a game that teacher can give their students to practise a variety of grammar skills such as; nouns and verbs.
The concept of games for Esl and dyslexic learners has the power to stimulate, excite and motivate these students by using a multi-sensory approach.
Scholastic Website -
Story Starter
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/storystarters/storystarter1.htm
The story starter resource is a great teacher resource which could be adapted to suit students from prep to grade 6. It would be a great activity to use on the smartboard as a whole group focus. This activity introduces students to the art of writing by engaging them with some creative and funny story starters by using of a variety of common nouns.
This would be very beneficial for students with learning disabilities and for those students’ visual and kinesthetic learners.
Teachers could use this activity to teach their students the importance of nouns in any genre of writing.
Brain- Pop Interactive Movies
http://www.brainpop.com/english/grammar/verbsandtheirobjects/preview.weml
This website offers a range of literacy related movies and activities. Some of the topics include: Verbs and their objects. students are introduced to two characters, Tim and Moby who take the students on an adventure where they explore very active - words. This website will allow students to find out what parts of a sentence tell about how a verb works, as well as what can receive the action of a verb.
This will suit students with dyslexia and esl learners because its offers the option of listening and watching in order to reinforce learning. This website also offers movies on adjectives, adverbs, antonym, synonyms and homonyms, including a range of punctutation related movies and activities.
This would be a great starting point for students wanting to learn Grammar, and then slowly tackling one aspect of Grammar at a time.
Suitability: Grade 3-6
Helping Children with Writing
http://www.helpingwithwriting.com/Lessons/SentenceOpeners/NounOpeners01.htm
Helping With Writing is a sequential program divided into five building blocks each containing seven Mini-Lessons and seven Worksheets. Many dyslexic students have difficulty in focusing on a particular task due to a short attention span. Therefore, these short lessons will suit dyslexic students and also help them build their writing skills step by step, block by block.
The website looks at aspects of writing by :
Building the foundation (sentence structure)
Name the game (Nouns)
Gathering things (Collective nouns)
Locating Ideas (Prepositions)
Taking action (Verbs)
This website would suit students in grade 3-6
Books:
About These Books:
Mr. Wright's class, and not just for the students. Nouns and verbs are inventing their own games, such as tug-of-words, and putting on three-legged races. But before the real fun can begin, someone is going to have to teach nouns and verbs about the kinds of teamwork needed to make a sentence. This book is a companion to 'Nouns and Verbs have a field day'- It's Field Day in Punctuation Takes a Vacation
Both these books would suit grades 3 and 4 and would be an interesting way to introduce nouns and punctuation to students. The images in the book would also reinforce the information, and allow those students who have learning disabilities recall facts on nouns, verbs and punctuation.
Picture Book learning Nouns
This website suggests a list of children's books that teachers can utilize and modify to suit the grammar type they are teaching. For instance; wanting to teach their students about abstract nouns can engage their students with this topic by reading picture books such as; Big Bad Bunny, Don't Eat the Teacher, Arthur's Teacher Moves In.
On the other hand, teachers wanting to teach their students about antonyms, synonyms and homonyms may choose to read "Madeline, The Gruffalo, If you Take a Mouse to School", and then as an explorative activity ask students to try and find where in the text, did they see examples of homonyms or synonyms?